Hacker News: mvelbaum

New comment by mvelbaum in "You can beat the binary search"

mvelbaum — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:15:49 +0000

New comment by mvelbaum in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

mvelbaum — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:33:54 +0000

New comment by mvelbaum in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

mvelbaum — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:28:04 +0000

Any AI researcher who refuses to support his own country in a technological arms race is morally bankrupt, foolishly naive and does not deserve to enjoy the the way of life created for him by those who sacrificed their lives.

New comment by mvelbaum in "Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task"

mvelbaum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:13:07 +0000

So only a stealth advantage?

New comment by mvelbaum in "Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task"

mvelbaum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:20 +0000

Sawyer Hood's dev-browser[0] allows the browser to write playwright JS code directly. Do you have cases where his approach fails and yours works?

[0] https://github.com/SawyerHood/dev-browser

Thoughts for the Weekend

mvelbaum — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:02:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcs1ZorNr2uTGPZPZnBa408qLVHjbMTzT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648493

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mvelbaum in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

mvelbaum — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:33:49 +0000

I live in Israel. There is fake news being spread about Tel Aviv being destroyed and Israel being hit hard. This is absolutely false. The volume of rockets is way lower than the 12 Day War. In fact, I do the irresponsible thing of not even going to the bomb shelter when the odd siren rings out.

There was a decision made by the security establishment not to allow reporting on Iranian missile hits in order to make it harder for the Iranians to do BDA.

Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

mvelbaum — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:17:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376392

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mvelbaum in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

mvelbaum — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:16:31 +0000

If you think the gov't is doing illegal things to US citizens then provide the proof and expose it. I don't have evidence so I am not going to speculate either way.

New comment by mvelbaum in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

mvelbaum — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:10:16 +0000

I can't believe that people simply bought into Anthropic's PR messaging. This has nothing to do with "mass surveillance" (which is illegal anyway) or killbots, it's all about Dario wanting to be able to override lawful use:

[0] https://x.com/CardilloSamuel/status/2027536128291528846

[1] https://x.com/UnderSecPD/status/2027353177578783204

[2] https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2027616890516889658

I think it's quite rich all these people virtue signaling when: (1) Anthropic (and other labs) committed large scale theft of copyrighted materials to train their models. (2) Anthropic collects large swaths of data on its users (3) Dario seemed to have no issue working to help the CCP: https://x.com/ubuto23/status/2027578089371267201

Also, you must understand that if you support Anthropic, then you should be against Open Source models.

Caught in the Hook: RCE and API Token Exfiltration Through Claude Code

mvelbaum — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/rce-and-api-token-exfiltration-through-claude-code-project-files-cve-2025-59536/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152609

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mvelbaum in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

mvelbaum — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:41:20 +0000

do you use FDE on your hetzner instances? I couldn't find a guarantee that they properly dispose of block storage so I ended up developing a utility for this https://github.com/mvelbaum/hetzner-fde-toolkit

New comment by mvelbaum in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

mvelbaum — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:25:48 +0000

the "uniparty" benefits from illegal immigration so I guess that's why it's a nonstarter.

All my new code will be closed-source from now on

mvelbaum — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/2009688028931875156

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565281

Points: 93

# Comments: 108

New comment by mvelbaum in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

mvelbaum — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:32:18 +0000

it's more like the previous guys were so bad that people said that the guy the media lied to them about from 2015 until 2024 wasn't that bad after all.

- we now see that "bidenomics" was a disaster after the media decided to stop lying about it and blaming the people for not believing "the stats". job numbers revised down massively after it was no longer viable to lie during the election.

- crime rates revised silently UP: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/...

- apparently there was no need for a "bipartisan border bill" or for "congress to act" in order to shut down the border as encounters are down 90% now.

people have their panties in a bunch about tariffs, but I don't understand why reciprocal tariffs are so bad.

it appears that people here are happy for things to go south just so that they could shit on trump. how about having a bit more optimism for the future, even if the near term will be a bit shakey?

Override: The Revolution Rewiring American Power

mvelbaum — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://eko.substack.com/p/override

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992893

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvelbaum in "Axum 0.8"

mvelbaum — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:34:27 +0000

Can you talk about about performance implications of using WASM?

1. The browser needs to load the whole app before anything else could be done resulting in a slow first load.

2. WASM -> DOM manipulation is slow.

Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever

mvelbaum — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:06:39 +0000

Article URL: https://getfullyear.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42570055

Points: 25

# Comments: 13

New comment by mvelbaum in "The Onion buys Infowars"

mvelbaum — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:40:56 +0000

media literacy is another propaganda term

New comment by mvelbaum in "The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix"

mvelbaum — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:20:24 +0000

You literally have a "Following" tab where you can have a timeline for only people you care about. You also have both a mute & a block button. Any platform focused on news & politics will have people fighting & insulting each other, learn to deal with it.

Advertisers have left as part of a concerted pressure campaign to bring back censorship. This effort has been coordinated by NGOs that ironically receive funding by the US Gov't as part of their mis/dis/malinformation playbook in order to keep in check populist political movements that may undermine the State Department's interests. As soon as Elon sued GARM, it broke apart, and I bet the Trump admin will target NewsGuard and kill it as well.